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Saturday, 6 August 2011

Vivendo discimus Spread

As I mentioned earlier on this blog, I've finally started to art journal, inspired by my very good friend Lenna Andrews. She is doing a bit every single day but I didn't want to commit myself that much. So I'm doing it if and when the inspiration strikes. As I want to try out different journals at the same time, I made a start by gessoing various pages in 3 different journals, one an altered book, one a Moleskine sketchbook with a portrait orientation and a similar one, but in landscape lay-out. As you can see my spread today is in the landscape journal and I've discovered that I can't scan the two pages together as they are too large for my scanner. So that's one disadvantage already, which can be added to the fact that I'm a firmly vertically orientated artist. Almost all my quilts are verticals so I did know that already. But I will persevere in this journal in the hope I might get to like the horizontal better.

This spread was inspired by the Latin words "vivendo discimus" found in a magazine. It means: we learn by living, and how true is that?! I used 2 Klimt inspired stamps of faces, one on each page, and on the first page, seen above, I also added an image taken from one of Klimt's paintings. One of my favourite artists, Klimt was big on decoration and that is inspirational to me. I added another quotation to the first page which reads: A little learning is a dang'rous thing, to which I have added: What about a lot of learning? Learning more about all kinds of everything is one of the main stays of my life, and I'll just carry on learning for as long as I draw breath.

On the facing page I added one of my own photographs, as well as the yellow rose picture from a magazine and a postage stamp. I also added more writing, with the question: What will I learn today? Perhaps we should all ask ourselves that question at the end of every day? Today I learned that there is an awful lot to do in this house on the days John isn't here!!! But I kept ticking them off on my mental list and by doing one thing at a time I've managed to do it all apart from closing the nest boxes in the chicken house, so I'm off to take care of that now, in the streaming rain!

1 comment:

I am behind in enjoying your posts Frieda with my visitors last week and the giveaway, etc. I am so glad me starting to art journal inspired YOU! I love seeing your process which you often work out in a journal. I like reading what is behind the words that may be on your journal page, it is like a window into the way you pour out such beautiful art. The yellow spread is lovely. I have a journal just like yours in landscape style that I have not tried yet. No surprise we were drawn to the same kind . . . could you take a photograph of the entire spread and then use the scanner for close-ups?? I have not tried yet, but that might work! looking forward to more of your journal spreads in whatever orientation! xo lenna

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I am an award winning artist mainly working in textiles and mixed media, whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally,and has won many prizes including winning the Scottish Quilt Championship in 1998, the European Quilt Championship in 2006 and the British Quilt and Stitch Village in 2015. My work has also won prizes for hand workmanship, computer design, art quilting and embellishment. I entered the world of mixed media around 2004 and my Artist Trading Card (ATC) Enduring, Unending won Best of Show in the House of Cards exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, 2005. I love art journalling and at the moment I'm an monthly Guest Designer for Stencilgirl Products. My art has been published in a wide variety of magazines and books both here in the U.K. and abroad.I love photography and have uploaded a daily picture to the Blipfoto site for the last 6.5 years. In 2012 I completed my self set task of making one Journal Quilt every week in the 52 Journals Project and they were exhibited in a very successful show in Peebles in 2014. I'm a full-time studio artist.

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